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PHOTOSHOP EXERCISES

Exercise 1 This exercise can be solved using the

following functions:

Selection Tools, Copy, Cut, Paste, Move Tool

Copy the pictures in paintings.jpg

and paste them into wall.jpg.

1. Save the pictures paintings.jpg och wall.jpg to your student folder. See the
chapter Steal a picture from the net if you're unsure of how to do it.

2. Open the picture paintings.jpg in Photoshop. Use the rectangular selection tool to
select the square painting, and copy it.

3. Open the picture wall.jpg in Photoshop (without closing paintings.jpg). Paste the
square picture onto the wall. Once you've pasted it there, use the Move Tool to place the
painting near the right-hand edge of the wall. 4. Use the elliptical selection tool to select
the round painting in the picture pictures.jpg. Cut it out.

5. Paste the round painting into the picture wall.jpg. Use the Move Tool to place it near
the left-hand edge of the wall.

Exercise 2

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This exercise can be solved using the following functions: Selection

Tools, Copy, Paste, Paste Into, Move Tool

Copy the pictures in framethis1, 2 and 3. Use the function Paste Into to
get them into the empty frames.

1. Save the pictures framethis1.jpg, framethis2.jpg, framethis3.jpg and emptyframes.jpg

to your folder.

2. Open the pictures you just saved in Photoshop.

3. Use a fitting Selection Tool to copy a picture from one of the framethis-pictures. When
you've copied it, Select the empty space inside one of the borders in the picture
emptyframes.jpg. Use the function Paste Into to paste the picture you just copied into
the frame.

4. Use the Move Tool to move the picture around inside the border until it fits.

5. Repeat until all the empty frames are filled.

Exercise 3

This exercise can be solved using the following functions:

Lasso- and Polygonal Lasso Selection Tools, Copy, Paste Into, Move Tool, Zoom
Tool, Transform

Use the Lasso

- or Polygonal Lasso Tool to Select and copy the
dog. Paste the dog into the doghouse..

1. Save the pictures dog.jpg and doghouse.jpg to your folder.

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2. Open the pictures in PhotoShop.

3. Use the Lasso- or Polygonal Lasso Selection Tools to select the dog. Be careful around
the edges. You will probably have to use the Zoom Tool. Read more about how to
effectively use these selection tools in the Tools chapter in the compendium.

4. When you've Selected the dog, copy it.

5. Use the Polygonal Lasso Tool to create a selection in the opening of the doghouse. Use
Paste Into to put the dog in there. Move the dog around with the Move Tool. Use
Transform Scale to shrink the dog a bit. Read more about how to do this in the chapter
Transform in the compendium.

Exercise 4

This exercise can be solved using the following functions:

Selection Tools, Copy, Paste, Paste Into, Move Tool, Transform, Opacity

Copy the ghost and paste at least ten copies of it into the castle
picture. Use the Transform function on each ghost, and give the
layer of each ghost a different Opacity.

1. Save the pictures ghost.jpg and ghostcastle.jpg to your folder.

2. Open the pictures in Photoshop.

3. Use a Selection Tool to Select the ghost. Copy it. Paste at least ten copies of the ghost
into the ghostcastle picture. Feel free to use Paste Into if you like. Use the Move Tool
to place each ghost where you want it.

4. Use the Transform functions to change the way each ghost looks.

5. Give each ghost's layer an Opacity that's less than 100%.

Exercise 5

This exercise can be solved using the following functions:

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Quick Select Tool (or Magic Wand Tool), Invert Selection, Copy, Paste

Use the Selection Tool Quick Select to select the black area around the
guitar. When you've selected all of it, Invert the selection. Now you can
copy the guitar! Paste it onto the flowery background.

1. Save the picures guitar.jpg and flowerback.jpg to your folder.

2. Open the pictures in Photoshop.

3. We're going to select the guitar. The fastest way to do that is here is to select the
black area around the guitar and then invert the selection -- to turn it inside out, so
that the guitar ends up being selected while the black area becomes deselected.

If you're using Photoshop CS3, try using the Quick Select tool to Select the black area
around the guitar. Read about how the Quick Select Tool works in the Tools chapter in
the compendium.

If you're using Photoshop 7, use the Magic Wand Tool to Select the black area around the
guitar. We weren't supposed to have to use Photoshop 7 when I started writing this
course so I never mentioned Magic Wand Tool in the compendium, but it's fairly easy to
use: click on the Magic Wand Tool in the Tool Box (it's in the same button as the Quick
Select Tool, look it up in the chapter Tools in the compendium for a picture that shows
you where it is). Once you've clicked on the Magic Wand Tool, make sure the value for
Tolerance is more than 0 up in the Alternatives Bar -- somewhere around 20-30 would be
good. Now click once on the black area around the guitar and you'll see that
everythingbut the guitar becomes Selected (look at the edges of the picture and you'll
see the selection bordering them; everything black has been selected, but not the
guitar.)

4. Regardless of how you Selected the black area, now it's time to Invert the selection.
Do that. Read about how in the Selection Tools Basics and Fancy Tricks section in the
Tools chapter in the compendium.

5. Once you've inverted the selection everything that wasn't selected before (the guitar)
should be selected, and everything that was (the black) should be deselected. Now
you see how Invert works, it can be very handy! Now copy the guitar.

6. Paste the guitar into the flowerback picture.

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Exercise 6 This exercise can be solved using the

following functions:

Paint Bucket Tool, Color Picker, Brush Tool

Use the Paint Bucket Tool to color the pictur

e. Make sure to pick
the right layer before you use the tool.

1. Save the picture colorize.psd to your folder.

2. Open the picture in Photoshop. It's in .psd-format because it consists of several layers.

3. Use the Paint Buchet Tool to color each part of the picture. Make sure to pick the right
layer before you start coloring it! Read about how to pick a color under Color Picker
and Eye Dropper Tool in the Tools chapter.

4. The layer "ansikte" (meaning "face") is empty. Use the Brush Tool to paint a face in it.

Exercise 7 This exercise can be solved using the

following functions:

New Picture, Brush Tool, Layers, Eraser Tool

1. Create a new picture. Make it 300 pixels high and 400 pixels wide. The resolution
should be 72 pixels/inch. Read more about it under Create A New Picture in the
compendium.

2. Use the Brush Tool and various brushes to paint a picture on it. Read more on
how to pick different brushes under Brush Tool, and how to change paint colors under
Color Picker And Eye Dropper Tool, in the Tools chapter.

Your picture can look any way you want. If you can't come up with a motive, paint a
landscape with some animals and people in it.

The thing here is that each things you paint must be on a layer of its own! So if you
paint, say, a moose, the moose needs to be on a layer of its own, and the tree has to be
a layer on its own, and so on. Do not paint anything on the Background layer.

You will make mistakes. Try using the Eraser Tool on some of them to see how it works.

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Feel free to use several layers for every "thing" in the picture if you want. As an example
you might want to paint the moose's horns on one layer, the moose's legs on another,
and so on. The more the merrier!

Rename each layer as you see fit (except for the Background layer, which you can't
rename). Every layer must have a name that describes what it contains. The layer with
the moose's horns could be named "horns", for example. Read more on how to rename
layers under Layers in the compendium.

Exercise 8

This exercise can be solved using the following functions:

Paint Bucket Tool, Brush Tool, Selection Tools, Copy, Paste, Eraser Tool,
Opacity, Move Tool

1. Save the pictures earth.jpg, mars.jpg and jupiter.jpg to your folder.

2. Create new picthre that is about 500 pixels wide, 400 pixels high, and has a resolution
of 72 pixels/inch. We're going to create a fancy space background here. Use the Paint
Bucket Tool to fill the Background layer with the color you want the space to have. Use
the Brush Tool to paint the stars and stuff.

3. Open the pictures you just saved. Use the Elliptical Selection Tool to select a planet
(be careful around the edges). Copy it, and paste it onto your space background. Do
this for each of the three planets.

4. Imagine that the sun (out of picture) shines on the three planets from the right. The
goal here is to create shadows on the planets. You do this by using the Eraser Tool,
preferably with a big, soft brush set on a low Opacity. Read more about the Eraser
Tool in the Tools chapter in the compendium.

Since this exercise can get a little tricky you'd be wise to make a couple of security
copies of the layers you don't want to risk messing up. Read on how to quickly copy an
entire layer under Layers in the compendium.

When you're done your picture should look something like this:

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